Englishgather
verb
1 we gathered in the hotel lobby:
congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come/get together, muster, rally, converge;
cluster together, crowd, mass, flock together;
rare foregather.
▷antonyms scatter.
2 he gathered a coterie of followers | he paused to gather his thoughts:
summon, summon up, call together, bring together, assemble, convene, rally, round up;
collect, muster, marshal, organize;
formal convoke.
▷antonyms disperse.
3 badgers gather bedding throughout the year:
collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner;
store, stockpile, heap up, pile up, stack up, hoard, put by, put away, lay by, lay in, set aside;
informal stash away, squirrel away.
4 the people gather fruits, berries, and roots:
harvest, collect, reap, pick, pluck, garner, crop, glean.
5 the show soon gathered a fanatical following:
attract, draw, pull, pull in, collect, pick up, whip up, raise.
6 I gather he's a keen footballer:
understand, be given to understand, believe, be led to believe, think, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, assume, surmise, fancy;
take it, hear, hear tell, be informed, notice, see, learn, discover.